in the. chaos in kiev hundreds of thousands of pro e.u. protesters battle police and stormed government buildings in the ukrainian capital there demanding that president quit for not signing a trade deal with europe. or a few nuclear agreement reached between iran and six world powers are met with angry statements from israel and capitol hill hawks that claim the deal's a failure. the scottish independence movement launching its manifesto. to call a fold to a damaging way some is supposed to many people into a critics say the way the text is heavy on detail and light on.

good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour up to one hundred sixty five people most of them police have been wounded in street battles in the ukrainian capital sunday's ban on demonstrations didn't stop hundreds of thousands of pro e.u. protesters from throwing bricks at officers and storming government buildings or he's alexei he has more from. tensions are dying down here in the central capital although still it's pretty much at a knife edge ten twenty thousand protesting in the central square the city administration building was earlier taken over by the activist of a nationalist party they now describe it as the headquarters of the new revolution another boiling point here is the building of the administration of ukraine's president earlier during the day we saw enormous clashes happening at this building as a standoff continues with protesters and the police i went there and i saw the situation

how it was straight after a huge huge brawl with the police the building of the administration of ukraine's president now under siege with several hundred a riot policemen protecting the building the set of buses so that the protesters cannot reach inside and these few a few meters basically maybe twenty meters between them and the protesters we've walked here we saw literally maybe several hundred of them over here we see shattered glass you can see probably over here some shattered glass on the ground or rocks which were used to throw a bit to throw at the police several hours ago the protesters that tried to assault a building the even used a bulldozer to try to break the police lines as we can see there fail the police are pretty much in control over here even though we're not even being let inside this perimeter because the policeman appearing that it clashes my iraq at any minute it's actually quite hard to speak here because of all the tear gas which was used it's still pretty much felt in the air and the situation is still very very tense here another incident i witnessed with my own eyes the group of some

activists attempted to take down the lenin monument in central kiev and also the police came to the scene tried to protect the monument in central kiev the focus of the protests has now shifted from the decision disagreement with the current government that it did not sign the free trade agreement with the european union to rage at the government's actions particularly dispersing. the peaceful protest on friday night or rather a typically brutal dispersal by the police and this is the main reason why so many people have taken to the streets there demanding the impeachment of the president the demanding the resignation of the government and we saw how activists a certain political movement set up steel fences around the central area blocking it for traffic but some statements coming from politicians here suggesting that things may calm down starting on monday because the speaker of the ukrainian parliament has called on the ruling party members of government and the opposition

to sit at the same table to negotiate how things will result in ukraine to avoid any more confrontations we also heard this is not confirmed reports but some sources are suggesting that the delegation of ukraine's government may be traveling to europe next week to go see the euro association deal but again this information is yet to be officially confirmed by the ukrainian government ukrainian police have told protesters they need to clear out from the city council meeting or they'll conduct a sweep operation to get them out demonstrators of apparently barricaded themselves inside or some updates from artie's alexei airshaft ski tweeting that for us you can follow him on twitter for the latest from kiev demonstrators are calling for a new ukrainian president now because victory refused to sign on with the e.u. but professor mark almost a historian at oxford thinks the street protesters don't speak for the majority of ukrainians i think we should move attributing what's going on to the majority of people i suspect the tragedy of the greatest great majority of people around the

passive uncertain world of dissolution. or ticks when both equation the risk now is that we have a full picture to minorities maybe the. whole mistreats group with kind of paramilitary nationalistic or the west not just western plane but also from some of you are pretty new countries. states are kind of who were seen during one time of the same time and this could. but it could lead to a very promising to ration and it could be a question of the ukraine. it was a state. of the west in general would prefer to be winners out of this and they hope with history on the group which will shoot him so for now the flood of against the world will handle this crisis very well so far that he will try to curry favor back with a good. maybe simply there is nothing in the rest of ukraine situation usually all simply. to take a look at why the ukrainian government is asking so or taking so much flak for not

signing the e.u. deal the opposition insists that a move toward europe is the correct one but the government doesn't see it that way because brussels isn't offering e.u. membership or other privileges that most europeans get many are saying there are major economic advantages to working with europe ukraine's leadership though thinks the deal would actually cause an economic downturn we've heard some e.u. officials say that kiev was pressured by moscow to not sign the deal ukraine already has a free trade agreement with russia granting them increased exports and other advantages to the east associate professor of political economy jeffrey summers has the news trade relations with ukraine may hurt their economy if we take a look at eastward expansion of the e.u. we can see that it has in the past produced the industrialization in the east labor migration really east to the west and so we've also seen western european

consumer products don't in the east and i think that the e.u. is again experiencing of course of the past four or five years economic crisis and it sees further eastward expansion as a way to resolve their own problems in the west here. or and benefiting most from the ongoing unrest current affairs blogger anatoly karl and thinks neither the government nor the opposition will gain anything from it. i don't think and you voice sounds the fact that because we've. got the east. although. these make the really good. there's also going to be all of the equal thing and now what we've seen this. will be that this this silence so i don't think it will then that the opposition. as they have it well it's obviously not and you know again you and. me i think

because the snake that for the it's not state it's that is that the favorites i think. that it's the it with belief in its favor the focus more on that the thing that's not excited the things that the things. that are to dot com for the latest videos photos and news updates from a detailed timeline of events in case you missed anything there as well. this coming week iran and six world powers are set to draft the first steps towards implementing the nuclear deal that was recently scored on in geneva the process isn't expected to be an easy one although seen as a diplomatic breakthrough the agreements already faced a fierce criticism from tehran is long standing foes in the region as well as hardliners within iran and hawks on capitol hill or he's got has the details. today

that diplomacy opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure and flying in the face of president obama what was cute in geneva. last night in small is sort of agreement. it's a story in state. it's not new a safer place in an environment where israel as well as many u.s. lawmakers don't think that iran should develop nuclear technology at all the obama administration had to engage in diplomatic acrobatics to both acknowledge iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy and not acknowledge it at the same time we approach these negotiations with a basic understanding of iran like any nation should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy but because of its record of violating its obligations iran must accept strict limitations on its nuclear program that make it impossible to develop a nuclear weapon the scope and role of iran's enrichment as is set forth in the

language within this document says that iran's peaceful nuclear program is subject to a negotiation and to mutual agreement. despite the official's attempts to appease the hawks punches are flying curators it looks like we've tacitly agreed that they will be enriching for commercial purposes now on the road so i think you're going to see on capitol hill again a bipartisan effort to try to make sure that this is not the final agreement another senator marco rubio called the deal quote a blow to our allies in the region who are already concerned about america's commitment to their security and i think a lot of people both in the middle east and on capitol hill are very concerned that this interim deal becomes the new norm opponents of the deal in washington and abroad are already working not to let it survive the six month trial the obama

administration is walking on eggshells before congress israel and its allies in the coffers it's trying to convey a carefully worded message which is you cannot threaten war all the time in washington i'm going to check out. gideon levy an israel based journalist says that netanyahu is aggressive rhetoric isn't likely to affect the deal in place the united states could leave also was a barking dog will continue with his takes but is really so isolated both eat the would his say it's world as they say and i don't think that this will create a lot of problems even if it comes from jerusalem if you judge it in a very cold way israel's security today is in a better position than two days ago because this agreement was for the benefit of all parties and above all i think that it's very important to know that iran is big

and monga the community of countries and not isolated isolated iran is always more dangerous than iran part of the west part of the east part of the world. the u.s. state of texas shaken by a string of earthquakes some of its residents are putting the blame on a controversial fracking technology demanding it be banned that and more still to come after this short break. what is the fate of the house of saud its list of complaints against washington is long and getting longer the saudis are furious over western dealings with iran disappointed that obama didn't bomb syria and one of its only real friends in the region is israel given all of this can the house of saud afford what it calls an independent one paul. weeks between thanksgiving and christmas in the united states

a conflict roughly twenty percent of annual topic during that period of time people are much less rational when they shall certainly modern people often spending money that they don't. and spending it on things they don't need to accomplish what they have only. fourteen minutes past the hour now it's been a critical week for scotland in the long lead up to the vote on independence late

late next year leader alex salmond launched a weighty document laying out what he called a mission statement for the nation's future or he starts or so you look at the key points put forward by the pro would depend movement. should scotland be an independent country it's a six war question that requires a simple yes or no but breaking a three hundred year old doing it could hardly be simple and the scots are not taking it lightly as it stands only about thirty percent of scots say they will vote for independence a figure those in the yes camp hope to increase by presenting that much anticipated white paper which a scottish national party says has the answers to all the questions about independence the prime minister david cameron and those belonging to the cabin says that independence is laden with risks and problems with warnings on just about everything taxes and debt suggest. tire taxes e.u. membership london says scotland could forget about it the trident nuclear program david cameron claims getting rid of it is a bad idea in case of

a north korean nuclear attack and there might even be roaming charges on mobile phones if the split happens and the list goes on it's a project fear by the yes camp and they accuse the government of scare mongering scots into voting no and they'd sist the white paper will prove that independence would bring about a jobs boom and a thriving economy concerns that resonate with voters this white paper answers some six hundred fifty questions and the details here really are two main categories here one those that will be negotiated during the transition period and another of those will be made if an independent scottish government is formed they promise indeed a lot of breaking down of all the policies they want to pursue but let's listen to a bit of what they said we would call a halt to damaging. many people into poverty abolish the bedroom tax and ensure that the incomes of the. peace with the course of living the main

crux of the matter here is that many critics are pointing out asking if this white paper is going to be presenting the poor because a lot of the premises presented requires another party in negotiation. what if the part of the bag of england that the british government or even e.u. member states in terms of e.u. membership what if they don't agree to what alex salmond has been proposing but he said that he is confident everything that's contained in six hundred seventy pages will be addressing every single question if anything at this white paper is going to be a springboard for even more debates in the months to come one member of the scottish parliament campaigning for independence is hit back at criticism that the new white paper is too detailed. it's a very accessible document it's in a sort of catalogue style and very defined chapters and of course it's going to be online with easy search facilities people will be able to look and see what particular issues they want to investigate new sounds for most of my life scotland

has no i think the government such as voted for it and you don't think independents people will vote for their representatives to be school once and it's about making choices and poses of choices and defining the future of us is base for scotland and the people who live in what can school and very straightforward despise them can say and. a school scuffle may have much more serious consequences than just a black eye a student suffered a brain injury and remains in a coma after a texas sheriff's deputy tase him following a fight in the school hallway with r.t. dot com for the full story there plus. in the spacecraft or the red planet has a left of earth's atmosphere starting at three hundred a mission on our website all the details. of that unexplained surge of earthquakes have put many texas communities on edge and many residents think they know the cause they say shale gas fracking industry is to blame or specifically the methods that the industry uses the notion is nothing new but the proof and the data have

been hard to come by during fracking thousands of tons of toxic chemicals are pumped underground to loosen the rocks and release gas experts say it leaves the ground highly unstable earlier in crane a campaigner against fracking tells r.t. the technology is harmful to people's health and the environment. the real concern is that this is a technology that basically has been proven not to work as the oil industry claims and it has resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of water soil and the and and also significant negative health impacts on the population that live above the gas fields but it reflects the fact that we are dealing with a cowboy industry that is driven by greed and little else that. the government of bahrain again coming under fire for alleged human rights

violations despite calls from amnesty international authorities have failed to free one of the country's most well known activists who's now already served most of his term he was put behind bars in two thousand and twelve are now eligible for release but likely to stay locked up on top of that authorities recently detained the leader of the european bahraini organization for human rights the same joe was arrested when he went to a police station to file a defamation complaint against a government run newspaper his wife tells us bahraini authorities know her husband is innocent but still won't let him go. off. grainy channels nor that my husband is innocent and he is just defending human rights and he is exposing that my nation practiced by the government of bahrain i have tried to accompany it with a police station with. confusion in front noticed plant has been created mr interviewed by judges and and he's an evil and human rights defender he always calls for peaceful who and amnesty international and other organizations as well as

e.o.'s are has been pressuring the bahraini government to relieve him well there is no call for a and from bahrain the government to respond at least two or three of these official letters being sent or calls or join to statements or whatsoever. take a look now at some other stories making international headlines this hour train has crashed erling off the tracks in the bronx borough of new york city killing four people were in sixty others reported injured with twelve in critical condition firefighters and emergency workers are on scene that are relevant happened along a curve in a designated slow speed area according to several passengers the train appeared to have been moving faster than normal before the crowd. thousands of people rallied in pakistan city of lahore protesting against u.s. drone program demonstrators called for unmanned strikes to be halted saying it violates the country's security and sovereignty. since two thousand and four the us

has carried out hundreds of drone attacks on suspected militants linked to the taliban and al qaida it sparked outrage in pakistan as hundreds of civilians have also been killed along with the targets of the strikes. egyptian security forces fired tear gas in cairo's tahrir square to break a rally staged against the army backed government several hundred protesters descended to the square chanting slogans against military rule in the nation riots follow the adoption of a draft constitution by a fifty member panel strong criticism for putting even more power into the hands of the military and prohibiting religious based political parties from forming. thousands of people marched in the streets of paris protesting a plan government tax reform it's the latest in a string of her demonstrations across the country the region of brittany has been hit by frequent rallies against a so-called new eco tax on trucks that is feared to undermine competitiveness of local industries protests are seen as a sign of growing frustration with the socialist government's economic policy. a

new countdown has just started for russia's alone big city of sochi in one hundred days the winter paralympic games will start their one of russia's medal hopefuls is the sled hockey team which is competing for the very first time and of join them in training. i talk to you as it should be intense fierce determined and. like you still hockey just with two sticks one in each hand with extra risks. for you miss you're constantly flying around at high speeds collisions and everything for it's all crazy fast and tireless commitment which is. we're here training all the time morning to night every day these seventeen paralympic athletes are in the twenty fourteen russia sledge hockey team and thirty six year old buddy i'm so you can is their captain he was injured in two thousand and two while serving in the russian military in chechnya. before the age of twenty five i

used to have a completely different life were also for both of but after the injury i turned to sports to realize my potential. he went from swimming to taking up a chance to join russia's brand new sledge hockey squad. no one is going to bring you things on a silver platter but here we had an opportunity to work for it since two thousand and nine when we were told we were going to participate in the stockton paralympics it's been our driving force in a country that struggled to accommodate people's disabilities russia's paralympic coach says the team is helping to change perceptions in the demo so we're putting on the second huge new world more of these guys managed to prove to themselves their relatives and the entire society that they are not people with disabilities but people with limited abilities. he has been a part of paralympics is one thousand nine hundred four but this is the first year that russia will compete this board only came here few years ago as were members

before the move we were just staring at one another not really knowing what to do first. let me show you. here is the sledge what it is this is the blade and this small area is the seat. which means it's terribly unsteady so just imagine you have to keep your balance and simultaneously carry the puck you keep falling down and it takes a lot of time to get back up but now we're skilled at it. these sledge hockey players the really just so she hasn't been easy it's taken an immense amount of hard work personal sacrifice and dedication but the payoff is that it's just on the eyes the crucible of the polls after this experience i believe that people who have survived a car crash or a plane crash will look at us and realize that even with an injury like that you can live on you can set your own goals and achieve them. you see captain of our

team to the region russia. is approaching sochi the unique relay has some spectacular highs and lows. for more. after the break the story of a russian army veteran who in his late forty's realized he could no longer live in a man's body and that. ukraine is in a tough spot right now trying to figure out whether to join the e.u. or the regime's custom union it would be nice if they would you know maybe allow the populace to vote for their future via referendum but sadly it looks like the

politicians will be making a historic decision i can see why some people want to look west and some people want to look east but i don't understand why so-called ukrainian nationalists want so desperately to join the e.u. first off any nationalist groups in the e.u. are automatically demonised as right wing extremists and in the politically correct west patriotism is pretty much a dirty word generally nationalist like their culture and the people who are part of it but if you look at migration trends within the e.u. we see that the slavic part of it is flooding western europe looking for work i have many relatives from the slavic part of the e.u. and almost all of them have to work abroad and might sound nice to be able to work in europe but the reality is that ukrainians will probably be paid even less than bulgarians rumanians to clean toilets in london ukrainian nationalists don't have to like russia or join the customs union or join any bloc of countries but advocating a future for themselves the e.u. seems absolutely backwards at least to me but that's just my opinion.

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